For those of us whose religion is Rock and Roll, this is the one day a year we get to give thanks Sometime in the next year or so me and my lifelong best friend Bruce Springsteen will be hitting 50 years of friendship. I am thankful for that. Next year my relationship with my second family the E Street Band members, and the extended E Street Family, Jon Landau, Barbara Carr, George Travis, and the late, great Frank Barsalona will hit 40 years. I am thankful for that. The fact that we are still getting better and more popular around the world is due directly to our leaders relentless strive for greatness, his insistence on our constantly evolving musical excellence, and his continuing to write songs at an unnecessarily high level of quality that is both historically unprecedented and profoundly inspiring. And I am thankful for that. I met my wife Maureen the same year I joined the band and SHES still getting better. I am thankful for her. These are the relationships that define ones life. And now being part of an institution where most of my musical heroes will live forever makes me very proud of the lifes work we have chosen, that weve been lucky enough to do, because its work Ive loved doing and continue to love doing. Thank you all. Stevie Van Zandt Brooklyn, NY April 10, 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Speech
Posted on: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 19:15:34 +0000
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